I am a political anthropologist whose research and teaching focuses on immigration politics and policies, cultural citizenship, and grassroots community organizing in the U.S., with special emphasis on the Bay Area. My book Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics (Stanford University Press, 2010) is an ethnography of San Francisco immigrant women’s experiences and activism in the context of hostile national immigration, welfare, and labor policies. My most recent book Disputing Citizenship (Policy Press, 2014) is the result of a seven-year collaboration with colleagues from the UK, France and Brazil and reflects her current interests in the efforts to regain local voting rights for non-citizens in the US and the domestic workers rights movement. My first book, Gendered Citizenships, was a co-edited volume featuring ethnographic research on cultural citizenship and women of color in the US, UK, Brazil, and Central America. I have published articles and chapters in academic journals and edited books, and co-edited a special issue of the Journal of the Mexican American Educator.Prior to joining USF’s Department of Politics in Fall 2014, I was a lecturer at Stanford and Harvard Universities, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, and a visiting scholar at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and Columbia University's Reid Hall in Paris.Teaching and research interests: immigration politics and policy, gender, citizenship, and grassroots social movements in the U.S.